Lamp-wick.



No. 650,984. Patented .Iune 5,1900.

E. McCUNNELL. LAI'flP WICK.

(Application filed. Feb. 17, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ELLICOTT MCCONNELL, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

LAM P-WICK.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 650,984, dated June 5, 1900.

Application filed February 17, 1899. Serial No. 705,875. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern: V

Be it'known that I, ELLIooTT McCoNNELL, a citizen of the United States, residing'at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and.

fabric is formed initially of a fixed width and the wick is incapable of being made narrower without leaving the resultant fabric liable to fray, unravel, and disintegrate after cutting. Consequently it is always necessary to purchase a wick of a width corresponding to the wick-tube of the lamp in connection with which it is used. This is often inconvenient, and where wicks are ordered in large quantities for various-sized lamps it happens frequently that many of them fail to lit at all, and consequently have to be returned or thrown away. It is also well known that it is often desirable to reduce the width of a lampwickr By my improvement I have produced a lampwick fabric which is capable of being cut into strips of any desired Width, while each strip so out will be as coherent as the ordinary single wick.

I will now describe my invention as embodied in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the fabric, showing the lines of stitching. Fig. 2 is a plan view of a portion of the fabric cut into a strip the width of a wick. Fig. 3 is an enlarged plan view of a portion of the fabric with the stitching.

In the drawings, A represents the warpthread of a lamp-wick fabric, and B the weftthread of the same fabric.

0 represents a series of lines of sewing-ma chine stitches extending longitudinally along the wick. As shown, the stitches extend longi- It is well known that in the lamp tudinally of the weft and across the warp, ,each stitch passing through and along a single weft, as may be seen in Fig. The stitches are arranged so as to form a series of .doublelines of stitches. For example, inFig.

-1 are shown six lines of stitches or stitched wefts at the top, forming three double lines of stitches or stitched wefts. four wefts unstitched. Then follow two lines of stitches or stitched wefts, forming one double line of stitches or stitched wefts. Then follow four wefts unstitched. Then follow at the bottom six lines of stitches'or stitched wefts, forming three double lines of stitches or stitched wefts. The arrangement shown in Fig. 1 displays, therefore, a wick in which the stitches are spaced apart, so as to form three series of longitudinal sections of stitched wick, two having six lines of stitches and one having two lines of stitches, the sections being separated by longitudinal sections of unstitched wick. These stitches O serve to lock the warp and weft together, so that the fabric may be out between adjacent lines of stitches without causing the fabric to fray, unravel, or disintegrate. It is obvious that the wick may by this means be divided into wicks ofany desired width to fit any desired wick-tube, each wick being complete in itself and as well bound and knit along the edges as the standard different-sized wicks now commonly used. Pref? erably the wick is out between the two lines of one double line of stitches, and it will always properly be so out where the arrangement of a plurality of double lines of stitches immediately adjacent to each other, as shown at the upper and lower edges of the wick of Fig. 1, is not adhered to, but where each double line of stitches lies between sections of unstitched wick-as, for example, the middle double line of stitches. (Shown in Fig. 1.) It is obvious that ifthe warps run longitudinally of the wick and the wefts transversely the lines of stitching will extend along and through the warp and across the weft, the terms warp and weft being used herein for convenience in describing the application of my invention to awoven-fabric wick.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to protect by Letters Patent, is-

Then follow 1. As a new article of manufacture,a wovenfabric lamp wick having parallel lines of stitches, each line of stitches extending through and along a single thread and binding the intersecting threads thereto, the lines of stitches being arranged in groups of two or more lines of stitches extending through and along immediately-adjacent threads, the several groups being spaced apart to form unstitched sections of various widths, whereby the wick may be cut longitudinally between adjacent stitched threads to form separate wicks of any desired width stitched along their sides.

2. As a new article of manufacture,a wovenfabric lamp wick having parallel lines of stitches, each line of stitches extending through and along a single thread and binding the intersecting threads thereto, the lines of stitches being arranged in groups of two or more lines of stitches extending through and along adjacent threads, the number of lines of stitches in the several groups being non-uniform, so as to form stitched sections of various widths, whereby the wick may be cut longitudinally between adjacent stitched threads to form separate wicks of any desired width stitched along their sides.

As a new article of man u facture,a wovenfabric lamp-wick having a series of double lines of stitches extending along and through parallel threads and binding the intersecting threads thercto,the lines of each double line of stitches extending through adjacent threads,

and the several double lines of stitches being spaced apart to form unstitched sections of various widths, whereby the wick may be cut longitudinally between the two lines of a double line of stitches to form separate wicks of various widths stitched along their sides.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a lampwick having lines of stitches extending longitudinally along the same, the lines of stitches being arranged in groups of two or more lines relatively close together, the several groups of lines being spaced apart to form unstitched sections of various widths, whereby the wick may be cut longitudinally between adjacent lines of a group of lines of stitches to form separate wicks of any desired width.

5. As a new article of manufacture, a lampwiek having lines of stitches extending longitudinally along the same, the lines being arranged in separate groups, each group having a plurality of lines, and the number of linesin the several groupsbeing non-uniform, so as to form a series of longitudinal sections of stitched Wick of various widths, separated by longitudinal sections of unstitched wick, whereby the wick may be cut into sections of any desired width.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand, at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on this 16th day of February, 180.).

ELLICOTT MOCONNELL.

\Vitnesses:

GEORGE 13. RODNEY, M. V. OBRIEN. 

